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I had to accept a return on an Android app because the user told me it was not working on his Motorola Xoom. (The audio playback had some reverberation)
This is not a super high volume app, so I am not planning to go out and buy dozens of Androids to test it!
Also, it is an audio recorder app, so it does not work too well in an emulator.
How can I diagnose and correct the problem on the Xoom and in fact all other platforms, without investing a small fortune!
One thing you can do, if you're not averse to rooting, is installing different ROMs on your device. This will at least give you the chance to test on some different versions of Android and different UI skins (how many are available depends on your device).
I also read about services that test your app on different devices for you, but I'm not sure how much these cost.
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Lenovo a6000 is not able to run material design code .
First of all, a question like this will provoke opinionated, heavily biased answers and provoke flamewar like discussions between religiously fanatic fanboy groups. It is not very wise to ask a question like this.
Furthermore, one single phone is never enough to really get your app tested. It gets you the impression how your app works on one device, but how it will work on all the others, you will never know. You will always need a variety of devices, and I am not just writing about phones, phablets and tablets, but also of different vendors. Because each vendor introduces "his" own peculiarities and quirks and you will notice that while running fine on a Nexus, your app might crash on an HTC or Samsung. Or while running nicely on those, it might not on a Huawei.
Why?
Because.
Because the vendor did something the others did not, and no one expected it. But your customers will hold you responsible for it. Because your app is crashing. And you don't want this.
So bottom line: There is no best phone for testing. Get a number of different devices from different vendors and test on all of them. Yes, it is expensive and tedious work, but you asked for it...and your customers will be thankful for a stable app. :)
Google nexus series is the best. Just use nexus for tests
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I experienced something weird on my Android tablet. It had been turned off for several weeks and then when I turned it on, it rebooted. Previously, it was just in sleep (standby) mode. But after rebooting, I noticed that the entire device was reset to its factory defaults. All my apps were gone and everything wiped.
Then a few days later I rebooted the device and was surprised to see that all my apps were back again and everything restored as it was. I don't use any backup/restore software, so I am really curious to know how this could happen? Does Android support multiple user profiles? If multiple boot profiles is supported, can this be utilized by an app through some API?
Android does not currently support multiple (simultaneous) user profiles. If you do want to achieve this, there is an app that supports it (perhaps more than one), but it involves having a rooted device.
I have personally used this on my home tablet, and it works quite nicely, but requires a reboot to access the other profiles.
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I was looking for an app for phones (iPhone, Android and SmartPhone - any or all) that would simply run in the background and place any scanned upc code digits into the currently active textbox.
I've Googled for quite a while and only found an Android app that actually replaces the keyboard of the phone.
It seems like it should be easy (I have many for PCs) but I haven't done any handheld programming since Windows CE days so I don't know if this is possible (can apps see other apps controls in these phones).
Has anyone ever come across an app like this?
use the iphone sdk from zbar and you can do it inside your app.
You cannot do this system wide. You can only add this functionality to your apps.
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I'm developing Java application using Eclipse IDE. problem is my PC is every low performance with XP. My company has many PCs free. So is there way to distribute free computer power and get that computer power for my Android application development?
If your whole computer is slow and the UI is generally unresponsive, then no there is nothing you can do. If you are writing an Android application that has trouble running on a desktop, than you have a problem in your code/design that you aren't going to solve with more developer hardware.
Technically, you may be able to distribute an android emulator through Hadoop, but unless you're working for free, the time-cost would be greater than that of a new computer. If your employer values your time, they will buy you a decent computer.
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I am looking at locking down several Android Tablets (Samsung Galaxy tab) to allow the user to unlock the device and be sent straight into one application and not allowed to leave. I was wondering if this is possible without creating a custom ROM and if so how? Any help is greatly appreciated
You might try creating a custom launcher and see how far that gets you. I don't think it will be bulletproof but by adding some hacks like having it auto-launch a specific app, it's probably about as far as you can get without a custom ROM. See here for the code of the stock Android launcher:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Launcher/+/master/src/com/android/launcher/Launcher.java
You could create an app that is more or less "non-exitable" by overriding the hardware buttons' default behaviour in your application.
Although if your app crashes and doesn't automatically restart after a crash, the user has full access to the rest of the system.